A global community from 30 countries calls for open sharing of scientific hardware Over 100 researchers, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs and community organizers from 30 countries have published a report describing the steps for providing global…

I agree the site could be better in terms of freedom, though I only see two links to twitter and flickr. I also understand their work depends on communicating to a certain public which is prominently on twitter, so I'm not surprised or disappointed. But the proprietary pdf reader is really silly, indeed.

What is disappointing is that they have no links to any of the free networks. I might write them about that.

(I've just been on their mobile page, might look different from the desktop version)

...I'll bet that you'll find most of the open hardware/software ppl in networks that suit their values.irc, xmpp, email lists, matrix, diaspora, mastodon...But they even didn't care to just link to any of those places.Keeping in mind that they even used a proprietary pdf reader makes me wonder very much about their intention. If it would be some other topic I propably would think a bit different....but they claim.to be devs that plan to move open accsess forward but they even don't care about it to much at their webpage. Guess writing them might be good.

First, most open hardware people, and even most free software people I'll say, are (still) on twitter/facebook, not on the free social networks. That's just how things are. Even if you count only hackerspaces - letting aside makerspaces, fablabs and whatnot where free networks aren't even a thing - their presence on the free social networks is still weak.

Second, the GOSH initiative is about open hardware in science. Their target audience are not only open source hardware people, but first and foremost scientists who are starting to realize the importance of openness. Again, these people don't even know the free social networks exist.